Oregon daily emerald., January 07, 1930, Image 4

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Unh ersity of Oregon, Eugene
Arthur E. Sehoeni . Editor
William II. Hammond . Business Manager
Vinton Hail . Managing Editor
EDITORIAL WRITERS
Ron Hubbs, Ruth Newman, Rex 'Fussing, Wilfred Brown
Secretary—Ann Hathaway
UPPER NEWS STAFF
Mary Klemm . Assistant Managing Editor
Harry Van Dine . Sports Editor
Phyllis Van Kimmell . Society
iMyron Griffin . Literary
Victor Kaufman . I*. I. P. Editor
Osborne Holland . Feature Editor
Ralph David . Chief Night Editor
Claience Craw . . Makeup Editor
George Weber, .7 r.
Tony Peterson
Addison Brockman
Jear. Patrick
Larry Jackson
Betty Hagen .
Ina Tremblay
Betty Carpenter .
Ned Mars
Louise Gurney
Bernadine Carrico
Helen Sullivan
Fred Reid
BUSINESS STAFF
. Associate Manager
. Advertising Manager
Foreign Advertising Manager
Manager Copy Department
. Circulation Manager
Women’s Specialty Advertising
.. Assistant Advertising Manager
........ Assistant Copy Manager
. Assistant Copy Manager
. . Executive Secretary
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The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Asso
ciated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily
except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. Member of
the Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice at
Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates,
$2.50 a year. Advertising rates upon application. Phone, Man
ager: Office, 3805; residence, 117.
Day Editor..Dorothy Thomas
Night Editor . .Carl Monroe
Assistant Night Editors
Ted Montgomery, John Rogers, Jack Bellinger,
Gwen Metzger
Peering Into Crystals for 1 930
‘E'OREIGN affairs: Germany will again declare the
superiority of her schools. Italy may have n
chance to send a foreign scholar to Oregon. Float
ing universities will carry 23,490 more college stu
dents around the world. Canada will export
28,767,200 bottles of beverages via underground sea
ways into U. S. P. G. Wodehouse will write a
humorous story about English colleges.
Domestic: Iowa will try to make the Big Nine
into Big Ten again. Prohis will raid another fra
ternity house and ten million Americans will gasp
at wild college youths. Newspapers will call Pop
Warner the "Old Fox" again. The O. S. C. Barom
eter will recall the disgraceful, now famous, "apple
core case.” Notre Dame’s football team will spend
three days of fall term on their own campus.
Twenty-nine sports "experts” will select all-Ameri
can teams, honoring 195 different players. Oregon
will neglect to sign up a tennis and swimming
“major sport” coach. A famous college president
and a movie queen will die on the same day, stories
of same being carried on pages 37 and 1, respec
tively.
The arts: College Humor will publish 15,379
jokes on college petting and 754 cartoons of
"stiides" with “x's” for eyes. The look-and-listen
films will present 23 college pictures, 22 of them
with last-minute touchdowns. Twelve students will
attend a big intersectional debate. Oregon will
stage another vain contest for a new alma mater
song.
The fashions: College men will not wear garters
or hats. Spring will see five street pajama cru
sades on five campi. Dirty cords will still be a la
mode on formal occasions, like recitals. High school
students will “out-collegiate” the college men.
Skirts will be now what could have smashed that
crystal?
An Empty Honor?
\ BOUT this time every term some 90 or 100 stu
dents on the University of Oregon campus are
being heartily congratulated on having their names
enrolled on the so-called scholastic honor roll for
having received no grade below II in the examina
tions of the preceding term.
Of recent years there has been considerable dis
cussion here and elsewhere as to the justification of
such an institution ns an honor roll, but it must be
admitted that it has certain advantages. It pro
vides an incentive for scholarship, it gives some
measure of recognition to those who devote their
time to scholarship rather than to the numerous
outside distractions of college life.
An honor roll, however, if it is to be a true honor
roll, should be vastly different than that now in
force on the University of Oregon campus. It
should take into consideration tlie number of hours
carried by a student, the average made, and, if pos
sible, the type of work carried. The Oregon honor
roll takes into consideration only whether or not
tlie student receives tHe grade of III in any of his
courses. In fact, a student may have his name pub
lished on the conditional honor roll and yet receive
a flunk in some subject through an incomplete or
the failure of the instructor to turn in the grade.
Under the present system it is conceivable that
a student might make 19 hours of 1 and one hour
of III, totalling him 98 points, and yet be denied
the honor roll, while another may make 12 hours of
II, totalling -18 points, and yet be placed thereon.
Neither is it exactly fair to compare tHe grades of
a student who fills his schedule with such subjects
as military science, magazine writing, and art ap
preciation. with one who takes such things as
organic chemistry, advanced biology, and money
and banking.
It would be impossible to attain the ideal in
drawing the plan for a new honor roll, but cer
tainly there could be one formulated which would
be more satisfactory than the present. Perhaps the
most practical way would be to take the point sys
tem as a working basis, placing on the honor roll,
say, everyone making 95 points or over. Another
alternative would be to place on the honor roll every
student making a II average or better.
Neither of these would take into consideration
the weight of the Individual subjects carried, but it
would place the honor roll on the basis of giving
some approximation of the worth of the students
of the university.
l ull Speed A-Pledging
T OUD lamentations of fear expressed from fra
ternity row when the University adopted its
dormitory policy at the beginning of fall term have
dwindled to a low diminuendo of whispers with the
start of winter term.
Those who viewed with alarm the proclamation
that no men could be pledged out of the dormitory
without someone else moving in have found little
in the status of the fraternities at the start of the
new term to complain about.
“Mortality” was comparatively low. Few men
dropped out at the end of the term and what casu
alties there were Had little evil effect on the houses.
New men entering school were pledged to help fill
in the blanks. The “evils” of the new system were
far from detrimental. Both the dormitories and the
fraternities are practically full.
Rush week this term consisted of one day and
the new men were hurriedly “pinned” before they
even had the chance to visit a few houses. Natur
ally, selection was based upon one day’s observa
tions. Such haste cannot be said to be conducive of
good judgment and successful orientation in the
right fraternity is pretty much of a long chance.
Deferred pledging, while it has its drawbacks as
well as its good points, is the logical step which has
solved the problem of pledging for a number of
eastern, middle west, and western universities and
colleges.
The Divine Unrest
ASHINCTON wants a football team liko
W V •
T T Stanford’s; Cornell wants “collegiate-ism”
abolished; Northwestern wants unlimited cuts;
Oregon State wants fewer apple cores at football
games; Iowa would like to get back into the Big
Ten; Princeton thinks modern slang is a prostitu
tion of the Knglish language.
Oxford champions the dignified college student;
Antioch desires to sen free and equal social initia
tive for women; Stanford wants more student
conventions; Pittsburg cries for freedom of the
press; Vassar maintains the cause of smoking for
women.
Few are the college newspapers of today which
do not have some pet theory they would like to
see put through. Collegiate editors sit down at
their typewriters, scratch their heads, and pound
off an editorial on a topic. Stirring up contro
versies and arousing a little thought, constructive
or otherwise, is their pet hobby and they ride it
almost to the ground. The undegraduate press is
full of ideas and is seeing the world through red
glasses.
Pacific wants second-team sweaters; Michigan
thinks all religions should co-operate on the cam
pus; Idaho wants hell-week retained; Michigan
State wants fraternity exchange dinners; Utah
would like a Union building; Penn State thinks the
no-captain football scheme best; Washington State
wants khaki R. O. T. C. uniforms relegated to the
museum.
When a great writer creates a heroine in one of
his books, women readers are prone to copy the
heroine’s traits, an eastern book critic declares.
Campus women of the present generation must
have been reading the endorsements on the back
pages of popular' magazines.
A professor back east saw his first football
game the other day after five years in this country.
It isn’t often that a fellow gets seats behind the
goal posts four years in succession.
Crew is an easy sport, complains a Washington
football player, you scrimmage sitting down. That’s
nothing, llow about swimming? You lay down to
do that.
The University of Hawaii recently forbade men
to wear their bathing suits while playing tennis on
the campus courts. The weather man makes such
a ruling unnecessary at Oregon.
Now let’s see, when is the next holiday?
emon
BIO KOBBKKY!!!! WUXTItY
Three members of Bagpipes and Kilties (Nat.
Scotch Frat.) woke up from a faint on the floor
of the Igloo yesterday crying that they had been
robbed of $20.25 each.
Dean Biggs immediately issued a statement that
Oregon men do not steal and turned the matter over
to the Homelock Shearns detective agency.
LEMON TODDY'S ALMANAC FOR 1980
(Not sponsored by Lydia E. I’inkham)
The following is an iiieomplete foreeast of the
events which will take place in the new year re
cently Introduced. Occult things have aided the
Soda Jerker in throwing this shadow before us, as
black eats, dice, crystal balls and slot machines.
As he writes, he sits on a high chair, wears a long
robe of cobwebs, a revised dunce’s hat and no teeth.
THE ALMANAC
January Rhineheart issues the annual state
ment that Oregon’s basketball team is certain to
win the Southeast title. The Spi’s hang out their
mattresses again after the high school conference
and the frosh serve dishwater at their Glee. Oregon
women break their New Year's resolution not to
smoke more than three packages of cigarettes
a day. Mr. Moll will be mistaken for House of
David Lender by prominent W. C. T. U. ladies.
February On Feb. 12 Oregon students will go
into a huddle because no holiday was declared. Tom
Stoddard will get a chance to make a speech.
Dean Jimmy Gilbert will announce a full holl
providing everybody gets "I s" in all their mid
terms.
The Psi Kappas will break their last New Year’s
resolution that they will no longer be known as
the big men around the College Side. They also re
sign from "The Big Three.”
Pres. Hail will be photographed by George God
frey along with the senior who went a 11 day with
out smoking on the law school curb.
On Feb. 3lst an Oregon student will be placed in
th stocks and fed dog blsquits for painting “God
Bless O. A. C." on the Forestry building at the Cor
vallis institution.
Steve Smith will shave his moustache to please
Dr. Boyer.
March rolls around.
Successive Installments of the almanac will be
published as the future is unfolded.
FORUM
ON FILIPINO STORY
To the Editor:
When I look up the Oregon
Daily Emerald dated December
11, my attention was attracted by
the headline, "Sergeant in Army
28 Years Has Interesting Time
With Filipinos.” I went on read
ing to find out what made Ser
geant Conyers have an interesting
time with the Filipinos. After
reading about a third of the
article I came across a group of
words, which I believed more in
teresting than the headline. Ser
geant. Conyers said: “The natives
are la*y, but cowards.” I do not
deny, but if he means to say that
all Filipinos are lazy, but cowards,
I don’t exactly agree with Ser
geant Conyers, due to the fact
that some Filipinos work as hard
as some of the Americans do.
Laziness and cowardliness are not
, only cases among Filipinos but
also to Americans.
LORENZO SAMPILO.
To pipes,
Men,
to Pipes!
Tradition has it that ye
shall know the fellowship of
pipes with seasoned, masculine, mel
low men of every age and degree.
Some try to join this brother
hood, yet fail, and are absolved as
born to pipeless lives. But honest
effort is required—each man’s own
test with good tobacco in a good pipe.
That is the formula. Both pipe
and tobacco must be good. The
pipe must be pure of bowl, and the
tobacco must be
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Another new term and again the University “Co-Op” is fully equipped
to furnish you with all your needs ... a full line of fountain pens,
notebooks, paper, portable typewriters, toilet goods, text books. But
then you know the service that the “Co-Op” has been giving for years—
standard merchandise at prices that are reasonable.
Fountain Pens
The University “Co-Op”
carries tlie most complete
line of fountain pens of any
store in Eugene . . . many
kinds, all sizes, colors and
prices. We have an efficient
repair service and engrave
any pen costing $5.00 or
over free.
Stationery
There’s no need to trot all
the way over town to buy
stationery when the Univer
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line of writing paper. You
are sure to find just what
you want and at the price
you're able to pay.
Leather Notebooks
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last for years. Come in and .
see some of our beautiful
ones of solid leather with
the Oregon seal impressed,
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sizes. We also have the
paper and index cards to
equip them.
Toilet Goods
And then we liavc all sorts
of toilet goods . . . soaps,
shaving cream, tooth paste,
compacts ... all reputable,
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